Adlympics poser

[Northender]

Seb has just ordered Montgomery Burns to release the hounds.

[amateur51]

Seb has just ordered Montgomery Burns to release the hounds.

[tantris]

You couldn't make it up, could you? Even if Coe misheard or misunderstood the question, the branding/sponsorship/tax avoidance issues, never mind the fiasco over security! are really tarnishing the (shiny metals I'm not allowed to name) of the Olympics.

[teamsaint]

It is a tawdry business.
luckily for me, I shall be spending 4 days in the middle of the whole thing at Wickham festival......that should keep it at bay, for 4 days at least.

[teamsaint]

Enjoy it Mr GG!

Quite ....Happy Hols MrGG.....

[LeMartinPecheur]

Just bear in mind the amount of business money that has gone in to the brands and IP at these games.

It's perfectly right that this investment be properly protected...

...and that sponsoring brands should be freed from paying UK tax on their UK profits. It's the least we can do isn't it?

Though there are some crazy people mounting petitions against these tax breaks if you should be mad enough to disagree. What's more, they seem to be winning the argument. A lot of the big brands like Coca Cola have decided that they will pay UK tax after all. What a shame

[Nick Armstrong]

Interesting: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/o...d-7962593.html

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well i did not need an excuse to ignore these olympics but now there is excellent reason to not watch any of it ...BRAND FASCISTS ....

boycott the sponsors


alas how typical of the present establishment to come up with this nonsense

and on reflection i fully support the strike action being taken by the civil servants who have had job cuts etc thrust upon them and then have all the responsibility for the surge in visitors dumped on them as well ....

as far as i can decide any such thing the people coming to see the Olympics are unwelcome, the event has become just another greed fest for the CORPOCATS and has no integrity or character worthy of respect

[tantris]

...and yet, I watched (by accident rather than design) a programme las night which was one of those 100 Greatest Olympic Moments type shows. It reminded me what a great thing the Olympics themselves actually are (is?).

So I've decided to ignore all the peripheral rubbish as much as possible and just enjoy the spectacle and great human endeavour that the Olympic Games represents. So there. (Helps that I don't live in London and so won't be monumentally inconvenienced getting work!)

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

and great human endeavour that the Olympic Games represents.

...reallyhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...hip-deals.html

BOYCOTT THE BRAND FASCIST CORPOCATS GREEDFEST

[tantris]

You can't seriously be citing the Daily Mail as the voice of reason at me...! Nope, I've decided to go a bit Pollyanna today, and be glad about the Olympics after all!

[Resurrection Man]

i seem to remember many moons ago when Harrods was owned by Mr Fayed that he sent his lawyer-hounds round to intimidate some poor shop owner who had the audacity to have Harrods in his store name or some such. There was no way that anyone would be confused between the well-known London store and this tiny High Street trader. But in went the hounds. Whereupon every other trader in the town changed their names to Harrods and the town council even went as far as passing a minuted resolution that they would be changing the name of the town to Harrods. The lawyers backed down.

The official statement in the FT today is that an individual wearing a Pepsi T-shirt would be allowed in but a group all wearing Pepsi would not. So let's just hope that lots of individuals go in and then "sort of - as if by chance - honest Guv" coalesce into a coherent group. Or even better five people wearing five T-shirts with five very large individual letters....P E P .....

[vinteuil]

i seem to remember many moons ago when Harrods was owned by Mr Fayed that he sent his lawyer-hounds round to intimidate some poor shop owner who had the audacity to have Harrods in his store name or some such. There was no way that anyone would be confused between the well-known London store and this tiny High Street trader. But in went the hounds. Whereupon every other trader in the town changed their names to Harrods and the town council even went as far as passing a minuted resolution that they would be changing the name of the town to Harrods. The lawyers backed down.

wiki confirms: -

"1986: The small town of Otorohanga in New Zealand briefly changed its name to Harrodsville in response to legal threats made by Mohamed Al-Fayed against a person with the surname of Harrod, who had used the name "Harrod's" for his shop. Other town businesses changed their store name to Harrod's in support, and the resultant lampooning in the British press led to Fayed dropping the legal action..."

[mangerton]

wiki confirms: -

"1986: The small town of Otorohanga in New Zealand briefly changed its name to Harrodsville in response to legal threats made by Mohamed Al-Fayed against a person with the surname of Harrod, who had used the name "Harrod's" for his shop. Other town businesses changed their store name to Harrod's in support, and the resultant lampooning in the British press led to Fayed dropping the legal action..."

Mentioned on R4's "The Now Show" yesterday/today.

[tantris]

Brilliant; nice when sanity prevails. I gather McDonald's (who make hamburgers) are pretty hot on pursuing anybody who calls themselves Mc..anything. Ludicrous. As a Scot, I know lots of people whose name begins with Mc - how stressful it must be for them waiting for a hefty law suit to plop on the mat any day now...